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Two and twenty lectures upon the five first chapters of Jeremiah With prayers annexed,…Tvvo and tvventie lectures vpon the fiue first chapters of Ieremiah With prayers annexed,…
Two and twenty lectures upon the five first chapters of Jeremiah With prayers annexed, at the end of every lecture: by Master John Calvin. Which being faithfully collected form him as he uttered them in Latin, in the schools of Geneva, were afterwards translated into French: and now newly turned out of French, into English, with a table at the end, containing the sum and scope of every lecture.Tvvo and tvventie lectures vpon the fiue first chapters of Ieremiah With prayers annexed, at the end of euery lecture: by Master Iohn Caluin. Which being faithfully collected form him as hee vttered them in Latine, in the schooles of Geneua, were afterwards translated into French: and now newly turned out of French, into English, with a table at the end, containing the summe and scope of euery lecture.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Nathanael Newbery, 1620
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Vers. 13. Only, or, notwithstanding, know thine iniquity; for thou hast wickedly sinned against the Lord thy God, and hast spread abroad, or scattered, thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and hast not harkened to my voice, saith the Lord.
Vers. 13. Onely, or, notwithstanding, know thine iniquity; for thou hast wickedly sinned against the Lord thy God, and hast spread abroad, or scattered, thy waies to the strangers vnder euery greene tree, and hast not harkened to my voyce, saith the Lord.
God here adds to his promise a condition, lest hypocrites abusing his bounty, should thereby grow more and more hardened; and yet in the mean while should think he were much beholding to them. For see how they are wont usually to reason, God is easily drawn to call us back again to himself: and more than that, he prevents sinners: well, we doubt not, but we shall as easily make fair weather with him. After this sort do hypocrites delude themselves with these perverse imaginations, because they falsely suppose they can satisfy God with any thing: for he looks for no more at the hands of poor sinners, than that they come again unto him. It is necessary therefore that exhortations to repentance be always coupled with the promises of grace. Doct. God then admonisheth the Israelites here, that they shall much deceive themselves, if they think to obtain pardon so easily for the sins they they have committed against him. He saith then, But know thine iniquity. The particle used in the Hebrew, may signify, only; or but; or notwithstanding. I willingly receive the second exposition, because there is an exception here added, according as I have expounded it; namely, that the Israelites should not lie snorting in their sins, as persuading themselves that they had God in their sleeve (as they say) or as if he were at their beck and command. Thus then we see the Prophet adds this ⟨p. 165⟩exception here, by way of a correction. But in the mean while (saith he) know thine iniquity: for otherwise thou hast no reason to seek reconciliation with me.